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Get your taxes done using TurboTax
You can’t do what you want to do using TurboTax online.
Typically, it is recommended that each TurboTax customer start a new return when they change marital status; you and your spouse would each start a new return from scratch and manually enter any carryover items.
To avoid doing this, you would need to be using TurboTax installed on your desktop computer (from a CD or download) for 2022 and 2023. Then, after filing the joint 2022 return, each spouse can be provided with a copy of the tax data file. In January 2024, you start your 2023 return using the 2022 file as the base, go into Forms mode, and delete all of the information, business schedules, depreciation worksheets, and so on, that belong to your spouse. Your spouse would start their 2023 tax return with the 2022 file and delete everything that applied to you.
This is a bit risky, and not recommended by Intuit, because of the risk of leaving behind some of the information from your ex spouse. And you can’t do this with TurboTax online because you can’t view the forms and worksheets in order to selectively delete the ones you need to delete. Depending on your comfort level with income tax forms, you might want to see a tax professional in 2022 in order to have the professional help set you up for the future. If you know what you are doing, and you are competent doing it, and you triple check your work, then sharing the 2022 data file and making selective deletions when you start your 2023 return, may work for you.